George Stanley quotes

George Stanley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.”
-- George Stanley

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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.
“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
“Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.”
“The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.”
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”
“No one man is superior to the game.”

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